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AP photographer uses MyWi to cover Bahrain protests

by Dana Franklin Feb 17th 2011 at 2:00PM

iPhone 3GS with MyWi softwareJames Lawler Duggan, a photojournalist from Washington, D.C., used his jailbroken iPhone 3GS and MyWi 4.0 tethering software to transmit photos from Bahrain (warning: photos are graphic in nature). This week, police locked down the capital of this small Persian Gulf kingdom as demonstrators prepared to protest against the country's monarchy.

After capturing several emotional photographs of the protests and violence, Duggan and his colleagues found the country's internet connectivity slowed to a halt. Duggan used his iPhone to overcome this obstacle and transmit his photos to the Associated Press wire in Cairo.

"My jailbroken 3GS running MyWi 4.0 proved to be the only way for me to get the images to Cairo, and even still, the resolution had to be dropped significantly to squeeze them through the pipeline," Duggan told us via email.

MyWi 4.0 from Intelliborn can transform any jailbroken iPhone or iPad into a mobile hotspot, allowing multiple laptops to connect to the internet through the device's 3G data service. It is available online for US$19.99.

This week's events in Bahrain are the latest in a series of uprisings in the region. Duggan's ability to share images of the upheaval using his iPhone shows how technology has changed the way information is shared with the world.



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garrett

Yay. Another reason for the virtues of jailbreaking (WiFi personal hotspot is already in iOS 4.2.6 for CDMA and will be in 4.3, but that's another issue).

I'm going to switch the topic to this:

I was more interested in the actual photographic story but the f***ing AP wants you to register to see the pics, they PLASTER AP all over the one sample image and their interface is ridiculously overloaded with BS.

Note to editor: If the article is behind a paid or registered pay-wall, please mention in your story.

February 19 2011 at 8:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jaap

MyWi is expensive and drains your battery - unlike TetherMe.

February 18 2011 at 4:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dan Pritchard

LOL at the photp--the carrier name indicates it's connected to an "AT&T M-Cell" (AT&T Microcell, which uses your internet connection and provides a 3G signal) ... so this means the person tethered is using Internet, over 3G, over Internet. Yo dawg!

February 18 2011 at 12:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ralph

You can do this without jailbreaking too. You can add files from your computer through iTunes to OneDisk, Atomic Browser, or other apps via File Sharing under the Apps tab in iTunes. These apps can them email the files or, in the case of Atomic Browser or ReaddleDocs, at least, upload them to DropBox.

February 17 2011 at 8:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gfs

No need to use a hacked phone and in fact, it would probably have been faster and simpler to use AirShare (I've no doubt there are others FMPro for example).

Plug iPhone into Mac.
Open iTunes.
Click on AirShare.
Add his photos to AirShare via open/save.
Disconnect iPhone.
Send images from his iPhone.

Maybe he has a PC (doubtful) but I'm these apps work just the same on PCs.

February 17 2011 at 5:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tim

This story does not make sense... if the country internet connectivity is slow to a halt, and the mobile internet network is not?

February 17 2011 at 4:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ben H

MyWi proved to be indispensable during my medical mission trip to Haiti after the earthquake last year. Mario over at Intelliborn is a true gentleman.

February 17 2011 at 4:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SM

MyWi is majorly overpriced. Another cydia app called TetherMe enables native tethering and will do hotspot once 4.3 is released. While it doesn't have all the features of myWi it is only $1.99, and it is native. That means its a lot cleaner and no extra app that needs configuring. It works as it should, and is a great little tweak for the price.

The guys at intelliborn constantly try and rip people off for what tend to be subpar apps.

February 17 2011 at 2:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
n00neimp0rtant

Tethering should have zero fees under all circumstances whatsoever no exceptions. It's not right to pay extra to use the bandwidth you pay for on a different device.

February 17 2011 at 2:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dennis Kristensen

Interesting stuff - and i'm looking so much forward for 4.3 iOS update and these features without the need for jailbreaking...

February 17 2011 at 2:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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